Buck Clayton

Wilbur Dorsey "Buck" Clayton was an American jazz trumpeter who was a member of Count Basie's orchestra. His principal influence was Louis Armstrong, first hearing the record "Confessin' That I Love You" as he passed by a shop window.

12 November 1911

Born on the same birth day (12 November): Alexander Borodin • Baaba Maal • Claude of Valois • Eduard Müller (Swiss politician) • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Ethan Zohn • James Luther Adams • John Walker (musician) • Kiara Bisaro • Michael Moorer • Nima Yooshij • Paolo Banchero • Raffey Cassidy • Richard Baxter • Tadeusz Borowski • Thomas Lemar • Wang Kuang-hui

Born in the same month (November 1911): Dixie Lee • Eduard Kainberger • Fe del Mundo • Jean Shiley • Jorge Negrete • Kirby Grant • Mingun Sayadaw • Odysseas Elytis • Paul Zielinski • Robert Jackson (UN administrator) • Roelof Frankot • Samuel Reshevsky • Václav Renč